Ugueth Urbina, who made the All-Star team when he was the Red Sox's closer in 2002, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for his role in the attempted murder of 14 workers on his ranch in Venezuela. You'll recall Urbina and co. reportedly attacked the workers with fire and a machete after finding out that one of them may or may not have stolen one of his guns.

We don't know about you all, but as we remember it, back in the early 90s kids fell into two distinct camps - Segas and Nintendos. The Segas were always saying stuff like "Oh come on, Sonic could totally kick Mario's butt!" and then the Nintendos would be all "Could not! All Sonic does is run, Mario can, like, shoot fire and fly and stuff!" And so forth.

I wasn’t going to mention this. But I’m an on/off again viewer of the show and a fan of the band and well it’s not everyday one of your favorite local groups gets the opportunity to have one of their songs on the silver screen. Chop Chop was doing some shows back in September of last year in LA and “I unwittingly invited one of the producers,” explained frontwoman Catherine Cavanaugh briefly via an email.

Every year, people talk about how we should expect the unexpected in the NCAA tournament. And while it is fun to see, say, George Mason make the Final Four, what sometimes gets lost in the shuffle is how great it can be to watch two of the teams everyone expects to be there do battle against one another with something big on the line.

There’s nothing wrong with a little theft — when it’s done right, that is. The incomparable Jonathan Lethem, in his recent essay for Harper’s, taught me that. Unlike the second performer last night at TT’s, local acoustic guy Brendan Little, who brought to mind about ten different blasé singer-songwriters when he sang “You ain't living till you died/Once or twice” from the track entitled “Boring,” Mean Creak (also of Boston) borrowed from all the best places during their set.